Logically, if there is no death in this world there wouldn't be the new generation. Just imagine, if all humans from the era of Adam were still alive until this time, what would this earth be ? All the world would be occupied by old people. I can not imagine what would happen...! The death give the space for the new comers of this world...! And the eternity only will be found later on after the judgement day...!

... where does the atheist believe they will spend eternity/after life/whatever ... and if its nothingness, why do they spend so much time trying to take others with them ... when there is no place to go ...

This is solely for an intellectual exercise, and to get people thinking. I'm not making any judgments one way or the other. I also think I am going to write a hub about this eventually.The first claim I'm...